Brown Sail, Wing and Wing, Nassau
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986)
Date: 1940
Dimensions:
Painting: 38 × 30 in. (96.5 × 76.2 cm)
Frame: 39 1/2 × 31 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (100.3 × 80 × 5.4 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Object number: 1949.106
Label Text:Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things. — Georgia O’Keeffe
Best known for her iconic close-up views of flowers, Georgia O’Keeffe was a pioneer of Modernism and abstraction in America. Staunchly independent, she forged her own artistic path across seven decades. This canvas, painted while O’Keeffe was on vacation in the Bahamas, exhibits her signature crisp lines and sharp color. The way that the sail of the boat takes on an organic, almost dorsal fin-like shape is in keeping with O’Keeffe’s signature style of drawing emphasis to and exaggerating natural forms.
Best known for her iconic close-up views of flowers, Georgia O’Keeffe was a pioneer of Modernism and abstraction in America. Staunchly independent, she forged her own artistic path across seven decades. This canvas, painted while O’Keeffe was on vacation in the Bahamas, exhibits her signature crisp lines and sharp color. The way that the sail of the boat takes on an organic, almost dorsal fin-like shape is in keeping with O’Keeffe’s signature style of drawing emphasis to and exaggerating natural forms.
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